1. Introduction and Related Research; 2. Plutonium and Los Alamos; 3. The Northern Rio Grande Basin; 4. Fluvial Sediment, Forms, and Processes; 5. Engineering Works; 6. Reparian Vegetation; 7. Plutonium in the Rio Grande System; 8. Annual Plutonium Budget for the Rio Grande; 9. Sediment and Plutonium Storage Upstream from Cochiti; 10. Sediment and Plutonium Storage Downstream from Cochiti; 11. Simulation of Sediment and Plutonium Dynamics; 12. General Lessons and Conclusions; Appendixes; Notes; References; Index
Summary
Workers at the Los Alomos National Laboratory dumped waste plutonium from the Manhattan Project and other nuclear weapons projects into canyons draining into the Rio Grande. This book studies the movement of the plutonium through the river system, and is illustrated with maps, diagrams and photographs. The analytic methods employed will serve as a model for application elsewhere